Decent Quotes

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Integrity, Men

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

  Jeremy Collier

  Confidence, Ignorance, Self

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• False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Modesty

  "Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc".

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• I try to stay in decent shape.

  D. J. Cotrona

  Trying, Shapes

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• Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, World, May

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• I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

  Taylor Momsen

  Believe, Moral, Persons

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Good Night, Imperfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  Sam Trammell

  Giving, Toasts, I Can

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• I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Want, Heat

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

  Eminem

  Funny, Husband, Men

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

  Homer

  Friendship, Confidence, Boldness And Courage

  Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.157, Lulu.com

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• Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Love Is, Shameless, Glorious

  Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (1995). “Love”

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• There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

  Jim Carrey

  Pride, Trying, Shapes

  Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

  Errol Flynn

  Playboy, Chaps, Expected

  Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

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• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Health Education, Poetry

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

  Paul Scholes

  Player, Mirrors, Want

  "Paul Scholes: What the Game’s Greats Have Said About Him" by Mark Ogden, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

  Mary Beard

  Soul, Fine, Humans

  "Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2014.

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• Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

  Bennett Cerf

  Hurt, People, Work Out

  Bennett Cerf (2012). “At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf”, p.74, Random House

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• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, Essentials, Dignity

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

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• An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Mistake, Fall

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Team, Player

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